Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole Mass-Velocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei

Onken, Christopher; Ferrarese, Laura; Merritt, David; Peterson, Bradley M; Pogge, R W; Vestergaard, Marianne; Wandel, Amri

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Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole Mass-Velocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei

Date

2004

Authors

Onken, Christopher

Ferrarese, Laura

Merritt, David

Peterson, Bradley M

Pogge, R W

Vestergaard, Marianne

Wandel, Amri

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We calibrate reverberation-based black hole (BH) masses in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by using the correlation between BH mass, MBH, and bulge/spheroid stellar velocity dispersion, σ*. We use new measurements of σ* for six AGNs and published velocity